Cookie Policy HSE.ie

About Cookies

Cookies are small text files which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or application. Your web browser (such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox) then sends these cookies back to the website or application on each subsequent visit so that they can recognise you and remember things like user preferences.

This Cookie Policy sets out how the HSE uses any information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, when you use this website.

In order for the site to work properly we need to collect some information. Below are the details of the cookies and what they are used for, there is also information about how you can control them.

Visitors to our website

When someone visits the website we collect standard internet log information. This information is anonymous and is not combined with any other information that you may submit on the site.

Necessary cookies

This website will set some cookies which are essential for the website to work properly. These cookies, none of which capture personally identifiable information, are as follows:

ASP.NET_SessionID - This is a unique identifier for the user's session, so the content management system knows where they are in the site. This is deleted when the browser is closed.

Third Party Cookies

The site uses Google Analytics to supply site analytics for our website usage. Read the Google privacy policy

__ga, _gat_UA*, _gid, _dc_gtm_UA* and a number of other session cookies- These are Google Analytics cookies. They are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. This information is used to monitor the number

_hjIncludedInSample and a number of other session cookies –

These are Hotjar cookies. We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.

Cookies required for the use of Livechat. The information collected is anonymous.

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DoubleClick IDE cookies are used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to users across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to users based on previous visits to a website. These cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user.

ShareThis cookies to help to share site content on social media sites.

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This is a Visual Website Optimizer cookie. These cookies collect information about how visitors interact with the pages on the website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The information collected is anonymous.

ApplicationGatewayAffinity

Lead Forensics represents and warrants to Customer that its technology, including but not limited to the LF Tracker, does not capture or associate the data captured with any personally identifiable information. It does track and provide only the commercial IP address captured visiting the one of Customer’s Websites, the corresponding domain and contact details of the organization registered to such IP address, and the Website visitor’s operating system and browser type and version.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE cookie, YSC, PREF

These are YouTube cookies. These cookies help track the number of views for a particular video. The pref cookie will track user preferences and serve up related content or adverts within an embedded YouTube video.

Use of cookies and how to control and delete cookies

If you want to restrict or block the cookies which are set by this website you can do this through your browser settings. Restricting cookies may change the way the website functions.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org